Life of CD/DVD Drives? (OT)

[Lloeki]

On 15/05/06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) <gsw@agere.com> wrote:

> I've had this happen several times with standalone DVD players.  It
> has nothing to do with amount of use or anything else AFAICT.
>

Most casual consumer IDE cd/dvd recorders are engineered to handle
around 1'000 recordings. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure,
STFWikipedia) of anything from cars to dishwashers is a Big Secret in
the industry, but expect it to be just past the announced warranty,
especially for low-end hardware. All these values are statistical
though, so one might just fail at once when another might just last
thrice the MTBF.